Thrive Collective
With support from the Immigrants Cultural Fund, Thrive Collective provided visual arts classes at PS 127 in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn that explored the school’s immigrant cultural diversity and collaboratively produced the I Am Brooklyn schoolyard mural. Our multidisciplinary arts education and social development programming began in February, and empowered students, parents, volunteers, and faculty…
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PS721K is a District 75 special needs school for students age 14-21 who are severely disabled. “Where are you going?” is a school mantra signifying that each student has a unique destiny to fulfill and path to get there. What a privilege to integrate their students’ artwork and celebrate that idea with them. Proudly, the…
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Meet Zanab and Josh Street art legend DAZE collaborates with students from Thrive Collective to create a signature Coney Island Art Walls mural. Coney Art Walls with Daze Artist Daze speaks about the importance of collaborations and working with students. Thanks for being awesome, Daze! Portfolio Production
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Ribbon Cutting
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Process Curating Student Submissions
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From November 2014 – June 2015, Thrive Teaching Artist Kekoa taught third and fourth graders at PS 282 visual arts skills including collage, sculpture, masks, and totems. A curated selection of completed works was presented at the school as a pop-up gallery exhibition on June 17, 2015. Student Work PS/MS 282 Inaugural Thrive Art Gala
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PS/MS 282 celebrated the beauty of its school community with the installation of our fourth schoolyard mural in 2014, “Community: I Am 282.” In February, Principal Magalie Alexis invited students and staff to contribute to the mural’s design. Throughout March and April, students explored ideas related to both identity and community, and generated mural concepts…
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“Mural: Master Class” students at McKinley Junior High School celebrated the generational handoff of immigrants in Bay Ridge by creating the Generations mural for the Norwegian Christian Home in Spring 2014. Here are some of the reactions from school and community leaders about the project’s significance: Principal Janice Geary, McKinley Junior High School “Projects like…
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“Mural: Master Class” students at Progress High School created the Legacy mural to celebrate the cultural heritage Puerto Rican immigrants brought with them to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, beginning in the 1940s. Installed at the entrance of the Borinquen Plaza Senior Center, the project was funded by City Council Member Erik Martin Dilan, with volunteers from local partners Cru New York,…
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